Old Sporting Stadiums

[TreatyStones]

And those fuckin residents have the cheek to be whinging

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

@Locke

The Gaelic Grounds, 1954

Supermacs was built the following year.

Mad to think now that’s well inside the city

Still a long walk from the city centre.

[Jahan]

It’s about 2km.

[Fagan_ODowd]

[Julio_Geordio]

@Fagan_ODowd

Still a long walk from the city centre.

Ah you’d be at the river in 20 minutes and O’Connell street in 30 without putting on more than a stroll.

It is an awful pity there’s fuck all places to go around the stadium though. The Davin was a big loss. Ardhu gone now too, don’t know if there’s been a big match since really? But it will be a disaster there for big days now

[Jahan]

Darren O’Connell should apply for a liquor licence for match days.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Locke

I see it with Kilkenny, the city is expanding like mad. There’s a bank of land between Cuffsgrange and the Car Boot that has been sold for residential. The building will continue down to Buckley Park which was well into the country back in the day.

At the current rate of expansion the Patrickswell, Cratloe and Ahane will all be city clubs in 20 years

[Julio_Geordio]

@Jahan

Darren O’Connell should apply for a liquor licence for match days.

Someone with a bag of cans should anyway

[Aertel220]

Peter’s not being in the Wexford 1st year final that’s curtain raiser is a bit of a surprise there.

[Pirlo]

Brothers putting in a fair effort last few years. With Willie Cleary and Chops Carley coaching them now and then.

[Thornhill]

The Azteca stadium Waterford.

[Cheasty]

Taksim Stadium Istanbul

[cowpat]

Stadio del Alpi. I had the fortune to be at a Turin derby there many moons ago.

[Locke]

This is a thread made for you @Cheasty

[Julio_Geordio]

GAA stadiums were never the same after they took out the Wooden benches.

Mashed together, and the crowd roaring.

Terraces haven’t been the same since you can’t go flying 8 rows down after a goal either. Although neither really a bad thing

[Locke]

Nearly impaling myself getting over the wire on the Canel End in 1992 is an experience you’d never want to experience again

[Julio_Geordio]

@Locke

Nearly impaling myself getting over the wire on the Canel End in 1992 is an experience you’d never want to experience again

I remember the auld lad squeezing me in through the turnstyle with him on the one ticket and being absolutely squelched into the wire mesh of the turnstyle.

Halycon days

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

GAA stadiums were never the same after they took out the Wooden benches.

Mashed together, and the crowd roaring.

Terraces haven’t been the same since you can’t go flying 8 rows down after a goal either. Although neither really a bad thing

You should go to Walsh Park. We have wooden seats and unsafe terraces by the new time.

[FlakeAway]

When you get the shit kicked out of you it feels a lot longer.

[Declan_Moffat]

Bramall Lane is one of the only grounds to host a cricket international and football international in England.